Improvement in washing-machines



J.TAYLOR.

Washing Machine.

. Patented Feb. 28,1871.

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Jo TAiDO ,ofP adelphia, countyof Philadelpl a, StateofPennsylvania, have invented an Im- M f which the following is a a washing-machine, too ed preliminary explanarapidly and efi'ectually anyway mg Drawing. view of my improved wash and l 3 verse sectional viewson the portinga vesselyfl in'posedof the-bottorn b, sidcsb, and ends I), onfthe for: which is secured a staonary rubber ,fihavi nsverse corrugations c. 'Within this 3v sel cam extending entirely across be same, is the movable rubber E, composed of the gether at the bottom by n which the clothes to rubber is in an elevated as on, asshowni i 1 i rubber Ei hunggby ihks ff, toa horizontal shatt, 15, the ends f e latt beingadapted to vertic inf t e ;u p tion of the side frames 1 he machine.

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" dle being provided at its outer endwith a crank-handle, j;

Beneath the vessel C is another shaft, G, adapted 1 to hearings in the opposite'side frames A and A, and i on this shaft is a ratchet-wheel, is, adapted to a pawl, k,

' connected to the eccentric-rodh' at a point adjacent to the eccentric, and by which the said pawl is operated. v

An intermittentp'otmy motion'is given by the cocentric, through the mdiu'mof the pawl and ratchet,

to the shaft G, to which are secured cams, 1 hand on the latter bear rollers at the lower end of lifting-rods, an, m, which are arranged to slide in vertical guides on the side frames of the machine, their-upper ends being hung loosely on the shaft, F, to which the above-mentioned rubber Eeis hung. l

. When it is desirable to maintain the rubber in an elevated position, a pawl, a, hung to the frame A, is applied to the-ratchet-whee il 0 on the shaftGr.

thoroughly rub the c lothes,lwhile the failing of the rubber will operate upon them by a kneading and pounding process. l

Should it he desired, however, to merely'rub the clothes without pounding or kneading them, the pawl 70' can be thrown and maintained out of gear with the ratchet h by the adj ustinent of the turn-buckle x,-

l Claim,

The combination of the vessel 0 and its stationary rubber with the movable rubber, and with devices,

substantially as described, for imparting a horizontal and intermittent reciprocating motion to the said In testimony whereof I have signed my name to this specification in the presence of two subscribing JOHN TAYLOR.

H. HowsoN, WM. A. Sweet; 

